Back in NJ.

5-31-17 SHORT HILLS: I came back to NJ yesterday, the day after big rains in both VT and NJ. The rain gauge had 2.5 inches, but that may be more than one storm. Lots of new stuff is in bloom and weeds are growing everywhere. The crape myrtle that I thought was dead is alive and growing up from the ground. I put a cage around it to keep the mowers from mowing over it. The new catalpa is in leaf and making branches. There is a lot of trimming and weeding to do.

New blooms; roses, English holly, kousa dogwood, Japanese snowbell, linden viburnum, Asian lilac, tree peony, mock orange, weigela.


What offers more promise than this?

Promise fulfilled.

Japanese snowbell. It's white and hangs down, that accounts for the name, I guess.

Kousa [Korean] dogwood blooms later than the native dogwoods. It makes a big red ball that is supposed to be edible.

Asian lilac, continuing, by happenchance, with a Far Eastern theme.

Tree peony, new flower and...

an older one.